Can someone explain what global warming is in a easy way that I figure out(without all those scientific words)

Question

I don't gwt it in any way it's like they are saying blahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah and thats what global warming is!!!!!

Answer 1

Don't worry, "blahblahblahblahblahblahblahbl" is about all the global warming fear mongers are saying anyway. Basically, the planet has warmed around .7 degrees in the last 100 years. The main point of the argument revolves around what is causing the warming - man or nature. The alarmists will tell you that it is a major problem and all kinds of bad things are going to happen like mass starvation. All the while the alarmists ignore the incovenient truths like the fact that the warmest year on record occurred before man was producing enough CO2 to make an alleged difference. Or how about the inconvenient truth that temperatures were dropping so much that the alarmists were worried about global COOLING and that was while man was producing enough CO2 to allegedly affect the environment. Other inconvenient truths are that temperatures couldn't be measured globally to a tenth of a degree until the last 100 years or so; with data 100 years ago, their computer models can't "predict" past weather, deserts are receding and not increasing, melting ice is greatly exaggerated (Greenland has actually had an increase in ice). The list goes on and on. However, we are supposed conveniently ignore the fact that they have no answers for those problems in their theory. We are supposed to just go along with their short-sighted solutions that don't consider (and can't) the impact on our climate decades down the road.

Answer 2

Earth has warmed by about 1ºF over the past 100 years. But why? And how? Well, scientists are not exactly sure. The Earth could be getting warmer on its own, but many of the world's leading climate scientists think that things people do are helping to make the Earth warmer.

The website below has some really great explanations that make it easy for all of us to understand some of the issues associated with global warming.

Hope it helps.

Answer 3

Light loses a little bit of energy when it passes through a piece of glass. This causes the inside of a greenhouse to be warmer then the outside, because the light (and heat) no longer has enough energy to get back out.

The atmosphere of a planet behaves similarly to the glass. Only some of the light (and heat) that comes from the sun can get back out, even if it is reflected by something bright and shiny (a mirror, or a field of ice).

What gases the atmosphere is made of determine how much energy is lost from the light (or heat).

The gases placed into the atmosphere by human activities have added so much to the ones produced by nature that the world may soon be too hot to live in.

Trees and other plants remove some of these gases from the atmosphere. People have got rid of most of the plants.

Answer 4

The planets closest to the sun are hotter than the ones far away. That is because the suns light and energy heats them up. The closer you are to the energy source, the more energy there is. But in addition to that, the atmosphere and surface impact how much of the energy stays, and how much can be radiated back into space. It turns out, that having more CO2 in the atmosphere, causes less energy to escape and more energy stays. This causes the average temperature to rise. We have more CO2 in the atmosphere because we create it by burning fossil fuels. Normally, plants and especially trees, breath CO2 and give off O2 in a balanced cycle between plants and animals. But we have been killing off the trees. Animals breath 02 and give off CO2, There is a cycle between plants and animals. Our burning of fossil fuels creates an extra source of CO2 that did not exist in the world before industrialization and technology. There is no counterbalancing source of 02, so the CO2 builds up.

Answer 5

When used in the correct context Global Warming refers to the trend of increasing average temperatures around the globe. It may be that in some places and at some times the average temperature drops but it's the longer-term trend that is important.

There can be confusion between global warming and climate change, they're two different things. Global warming is as explained above whereas Climate Change refers to the way in which the climate has changed, is changing and will change in the future. GW is essentially the cause and CC is the effect.

There are two parts to global warming, the natural part and the manmade part. Manmade global warming is sometimes referred to as anthropogenic global warming and it's this part that is causing both concern and controversy.

The key aspect is the 'greenhouse gases'. This is the term used to describe the different gases that contribute to global warming. There's lots of them but really only four important ones - water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.

Water vapour is, for all intents and purposes, entirely natural. Because of the physical properties of the atmosphere it's impossible to have too much water vapour, once the maximum limit is reached it simply falls back to earth as rain or snow. Because there's many, many times the amount of water vapour than all the other greenhouse gases combined this is the one that contributes most to global warming.

Unlike water vapour, the other greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere, in time they will dissipate but this can be a long wait, 115 years in the case of carbon dioxide. There are natural cycles that remove some greenhouse gases but the amount they are able to recycle is much less than the amount we're adding to the atmosphere - in effect we've managed to overload nature.

What makes the greenhouse gases different from the other gases in the atmosphere (such as nitrogen and oxygen) is that they have a physical property that enables them to trap heat within our atmosphere.

The heat our planet receives comes from the sun in the form of solar radiation; this warms the earth and everything on it. When night falls or the temperatures drop the heat that has been absorbed from the sun is radiated back out towards space but it's radiated out as a different type of heat - thermal radiation. This has a longer wavelength than solar radiation and has difficulty getting past the molecules of greenhouse gases.

Effectively the greenhouse gases are insulating the planet and the more there are the greater the insulative effect. It's essential that they do this, if they didn't and all heat was lost into space the planet would be so cold that life would never have evolved.

The problem we're facing at the moment is that we've put massive amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, far more than any natural cycles can handle and the effect is that the insulating layer is getting thicker. The bottom line really is very simple - the more greenhouse gases there are the warmer the planet is.

The effects of climate change are diverse and for some people they're beneficial, especially those living in cold climates and those who are cashing in on what's happening.

However, there are far more negatives than there are positives and some of the effects include flooding, droughts, wildfires, desertification, rising sea levels, loss of agricultural land, threat to many species, population migration, spread of disease and disease vectors, insect infestation and more.

These aren't dramatic changes and from year to year things will appear almost unchanged but over periods of decades and centuries the effects are dramatic. Sea levels for example are rising by an average of 3mm (⅛ inch) a year, not a lot but they are rising faster and in 100 years time they're expected to have risen by 750mm (30 inches) - enough to cause devastating flooding and the loss of much low lying land.

Global warming is a big concern and at the moment we don't have a cure. We can treat some of the symptoms through a variety of simple measures but it will take some dramatic changes to significantly slow down or even stop manmade global warming.

Here are some websites with further info and ideas for helping slow down global warming...
http://profend.com/global-warming/pages/combat.html
http://www.nrdc.org/air/energy/genergy.asp
http://www.est.org.uk/myhome/
http://www.carbontrust.co.uk/energy
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/saving_energy/index.html
http://www.energy.gov/energyefficiency/index.htm
http://www.ase.org/
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Environmentandgreenerliving/Energyandwatersaving/DG_064371
http://www.roughguides.com/savingenergy/
http://www.srpnet.com/menu/energy.aspx

Answer 6

Some gases ("greenhouse gases") let sunlight in, which warms the Earth, and then block that heat from leaving. That's the "greenhouse effect", and it's a natural thing, mostly caused by water vapor.

Man is making excessive amounts of greenhouse gases, mostly by burning fossil fuels. That causes the delicate natural balance to go out of whack and the Earth warms. That's global warming.

It won't be a Hollywood style disaster. Gradually coastal areas will flood and agriculture will be damaged. But it will be very bad. Rich countries will cope, but it will take huge amounts of money. In poor countries many people will die of starvation, but not all of them.

Most scientists say, in 20-50 years. But we need to start right now to fix it, fixing it will take even longer than that.

More information here:

http://profend.com/global-warming/

Lots of numerical scientific data proving it real here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

Answer 7

Global warming refers to an average increase in the Earth's temperature, which in turn causes changes in climate. A warmer Earth may lead to changes in rainfall patterns, a rise in sea level, and a wide range of impacts on plants, wildlife, and humans. Global warming is caused by human activity example-pollution.

Answer 8

"'It does not count who you're, or how smart you're, or what call you have, or how a lot of you there are, and under no circumstances what share papers your component has printed, in the experience that your prediction is faulty then your hypothesis is faulty. era.' --Richard Feynman, PhD., Nobel Laureate in physics" i like it whilst human beings cite Feynman as an expert determine...the place Feynman tells human beings to not take authority figures too heavily. BTW, including "PhD" after Feynman's call makes it extremely impressive! I constantly concept his degree become DDS.

Answer 9

The green house gases prevent as much light (which brings heat) from reflecting back into space. The increase amount of light rays on earth makes more heat.

Answer 10

its when pollution from cars and stuff (greenhouse gases) thickens the air so sunlight comes in but can't get out which makes the world warmer (and makes the ice melt in the north and south pole so the polar bears and other animals die). mosquitoes and other pests multiply because they like the warmth and water evaporates quicker which may lead to water wars and many other bad things. I recommend watching al gore's the inconvenient truth. its a little confusing but he shows you diagrams and stuff so you'll sort of get it.